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Classification of Cognitive States from fMRI data using Fisher Discriminant Ratio and Regions of Interest

  • Do, Luu Ngoc (Department of Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Yang, Hyung Jeong (Department of Computer Science, Chonnam National University)
  • Received : 2012.08.31
  • Accepted : 2012.11.14
  • Published : 2012.12.28
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Abstract

In recent decades, analyzing the activities of human brain achieved some accomplishments by using the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technique. fMRI data provide a sequence of three-dimensional images related to human brain's activity which can be used to detect instantaneous cognitive states by applying machine learning methods. In this paper, we propose a new approach for distinguishing human's cognitive states such as "observing a picture" versus "reading a sentence" and "reading an affirmative sentence" versus "reading a negative sentence". Since fMRI data are high dimensional (about 100,000 features in each sample), extremely sparse and noisy, feature selection is a very important step for increasing classification accuracy and reducing processing time. We used the Fisher Discriminant Ratio to select the most powerful discriminative features from some Regions of Interest (ROIs). The experimental results showed that our approach achieved the best performance compared to other feature extraction methods with the average accuracy approximately 95.83% for the first study and 99.5% for the second study.

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